Englebert Slaptyback:Speaking last year as she celebrated her 100th birthday, Mrs Gies played down her role, saying others had done far more to protect Jews in the Netherlands.

She and her fellow employees kept Anne and the seven others supplied for two years, from 1942 to 1944.

Good on ya, missus.

*leaves before RIP-tards and Helen Keller jokes arrive*

Well, you beat the RIP-tards, but the HK jokes slipped in. To beat out the lowlife, you have to have TotalFark membership, good reflexes, and no other life to interfere with following fark threads.//So essentially, you have to be a lowlife. But better luck next time.

The Anne Frank house in Amsterdam is seriously one of the most heart-wrenching house tours ever. Especially when I stood next to the wall where Anne and her sister measured themselves as they grew taller in hiding. Last time Anne was measured, she was about my height, 5'4"

booklover555:The Anne Frank house in Amsterdam is seriously one of the most heart-wrenching house tours ever. Especially when I stood next to the wall where Anne and her sister measured themselves as they grew taller in hiding. Last time Anne was measured, she was about my height, 5'4"

/But she never even would have gotten that far without Miep.

Yes, it is one of the more touching pieces of fiction the Jewish media have succeeded in passing off as real.

booklover555:The Anne Frank house in Amsterdam is seriously one of the most heart-wrenching house tours ever. Especially when I stood next to the wall where Anne and her sister measured themselves as they grew taller in hiding. Last time Anne was measured, she was about my height, 5'4"

LordPomposity:booklover555: The Anne Frank house in Amsterdam is seriously one of the most heart-wrenching house tours ever. Especially when I stood next to the wall where Anne and her sister measured themselves as they grew taller in hiding. Last time Anne was measured, she was about my height, 5'4"

/But she never even would have gotten that far without Miep.

Yes, it is one of the more touching pieces of fiction the Jewish media have succeeded in passing off as real.

seabass242:LordPomposity: booklover555: The Anne Frank house in Amsterdam is seriously one of the most heart-wrenching house tours ever. Especially when I stood next to the wall where Anne and her sister measured themselves as they grew taller in hiding. Last time Anne was measured, she was about my height, 5'4"

/But she never even would have gotten that far without Miep.

Yes, it is one of the more touching pieces of fiction the Jewish media have succeeded in passing off as real.

1/10... You really had to troll an Anne Frank thread?

Ah, liberals. Tolerant of all viewpoints...right up until they find one, supported by the facts, that opposes their own house-of-cards worldview. Then they brand you a troll and try to shut you up.

LordPomposity:seabass242: LordPomposity: booklover555: The Anne Frank house in Amsterdam is seriously one of the most heart-wrenching house tours ever. Especially when I stood next to the wall where Anne and her sister measured themselves as they grew taller in hiding. Last time Anne was measured, she was about my height, 5'4"

/But she never even would have gotten that far without Miep.

Yes, it is one of the more touching pieces of fiction the Jewish media have succeeded in passing off as real.

1/10... You really had to troll an Anne Frank thread?

Ah, liberals. Tolerant of all viewpoints...right up until they find one, supported by the facts, that opposes their own house-of-cards worldview. Then they brand you a troll and try to shut you up.

LordPomposity:seabass242: LordPomposity: booklover555: The Anne Frank house in Amsterdam is seriously one of the most heart-wrenching house tours ever. Especially when I stood next to the wall where Anne and her sister measured themselves as they grew taller in hiding. Last time Anne was measured, she was about my height, 5'4"

/But she never even would have gotten that far without Miep.

Yes, it is one of the more touching pieces of fiction the Jewish media have succeeded in passing off as real.

1/10... You really had to troll an Anne Frank thread?

Ah, liberals. Tolerant of all viewpoints...right up until they find one, supported by the facts, that opposes their own house-of-cards worldview. Then they brand you a troll and try to shut you up.

So only liberals believe in the veracity of the authorship? Don't insult the conservatives.

seabass242:LordPomposity: booklover555: The Anne Frank house in Amsterdam is seriously one of the most heart-wrenching house tours ever. Especially when I stood next to the wall where Anne and her sister measured themselves as they grew taller in hiding. Last time Anne was measured, she was about my height, 5'4"

/But she never even would have gotten that far without Miep.

Yes, it is one of the more touching pieces of fiction the Jewish media have succeeded in passing off as real.

1/10... You really had to troll an Anne Frank thread?

Barrel, fish, shotgun.

Except more half-assed trolls.

/I was gonna post some Storm Front quotes, put I got a away pissed off

popstop:So only liberals believe in the veracity of the authorship? Don't insult the conservatives.

The "responsible conservatives" are ultimately just as weak as the liberals. Indeed, the Republicans in our government willingly roll over alongside the Democrats while the international Jewry (in the form of the Israeli government) uses our troops as meat shields between themselves and the people they oppress.

jaytkay:LordPomposity: Ah, liberals. Tolerant of all viewpoints...right up until they find one, supported by the facts, that opposes their own house-of-cards worldview.

I met Miep Gies when I was about 12. She was very inspirational and very humble and kind. Like you would expect any sweet old grandma to be basically. She never considered what she did anymore special than what she thought anyone would do in that situation. My heart goes out to her family.

Remarkable, inspirational person. And she would always say she was not a hero, she was only doing what she knew should be done.

I'm glad she got to live an entire century. I thought she must be already dead until I read this.

/grandma grew up in Nazi Germany//even as a German citizen she was forced to do menial labor and almost starved to death///horrible, horrible time and place in history and anyone who managed to bring any good to it is definitely a hero

Though, all seriousness aside, I have to say the Beaker picture made me LOL...

LordPomposity:popstop: So only liberals believe in the veracity of the authorship? Don't insult the conservatives.

The "responsible conservatives" are ultimately just as weak as the liberals. Indeed, the Republicans in our government willingly roll over alongside the Democrats while the international Jewry (in the form of the Israeli government) uses our troops as meat shields between themselves and the people they oppress.

jaytkay: LordPomposity: Ah, liberals. Tolerant of all viewpoints...right up until they find one, supported by the facts, that opposes their own house-of-cards worldview.

The Nazi one?

Why, yes. You say that like it's a bad thing.

You. Wow. You are blowing my mind right now. I've never seen a Nazi sympathizer.

I've seen white supremacists but they are mostly scared pups with no pack, you don't seem to have anything to gain.

You're trolling the Holocaust, and it seems like you believe what you're saying.

"I am not a hero," Mrs. Gies wrote in her memoir, "Anne Frank Remembered," published in 1987. "I stand at the end of the long, long line of good Dutch people who did what I did and more - much more - during those dark and terrible times years ago, but always like yesterday in the heart of those of us who bear witness."

LordPomposity:booklover555: The Anne Frank house in Amsterdam is seriously one of the most heart-wrenching house tours ever. Especially when I stood next to the wall where Anne and her sister measured themselves as they grew taller in hiding. Last time Anne was measured, she was about my height, 5'4"

/But she never even would have gotten that far without Miep.

Yes, it is one of the more touching pieces of fiction the Jewish media have succeeded in passing off as real.

Not even I live with my mom. Maybe -2/10. Anemic. You're not trying even a little bit. You have to try a little bit at least if you want to be heard over these Huns. Come on, man, put some oomph into it.

LordPomposity:booklover555: The Anne Frank house in Amsterdam is seriously one of the most heart-wrenching house tours ever. Especially when I stood next to the wall where Anne and her sister measured themselves as they grew taller in hiding. Last time Anne was measured, she was about my height, 5'4"

/But she never even would have gotten that far without Miep.

Yes, it is one of the more touching pieces of fiction the Jewish media have succeeded in passing off as real.

One of two options..1) You are trolling for attention.. in which case develop a real talent, so you can get positive attention.

2) You actually believe what you just said.. in which case please get therapy. Quickly. It is not healthy to be so full of hate & paranoia.

booklover555:The Anne Frank house in Amsterdam is seriously one of the most heart-wrenching house tours ever. Especially when I stood next to the wall where Anne and her sister measured themselves as they grew taller in hiding. Last time Anne was measured, she was about my height, 5'4"

/But she never even would have gotten that far without Miep.

I got to see it as well. The bookcase/door was the part that got me. You would never know they were there when it was closed.

ringo2:There's actually an old jewish blessing - "may she/he live to be 100". I guess if enough people say it...

Token Jew here. While Mrs. Gies lived an exemplary life and died "at a good age," as the saying goes, the Jewish blessing is actually... "until 120." And why? Because the legend says that Moses lived until 120.

The website of The Forward (a Yiddish newspaper) has a nicely-summarized explanation, in English:

..."We are told by the Bible that 120 was the age of Moses when he died, and Moses is the only biblical character whom we are also told remained in good health, sound of mind and of body, until his last moment. ("And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.") Moreover, according to Jewish legend Moses died the most painless and even pleasant of deaths, since God Himself drew his soul from his body with a kiss. To this day, in Hebrew, when one wishes to say that someone has died peacefully - as when an elderly person passes away in his or her sleep without suffering - one says that he or she died "the death of a kiss."

To wish someone "until 120," therefore, is to wish them a life as long and healthy as God permits and a death as quick and easy as Moses'. And although such a wish contains an element of exaggeration, 120 being beyond the range of even abnormal human-life expectancy, it is not so beyond the range that it seems totally absurd."...

Merky:Fark this biatch. I am glad she is dead. She took someone's private diary and exposed it to the world. That is an unacceptable invasion of privacy and I hope she burns in hell for it.

Are you trolling for fun, or do you just lack reading comprehension? She didn't even read the diary and papers herself, much less expose them to anyone else. After the Franks were taken away, the Gestapo left the papers in the apartment. Mrs. Gies found them, and the diary, gathered them up and locked it all away until Mr. Frank - the only one of the family who survived - came back, and then gave the lot to him, still untouched. He was the one who decided what should be done with it.

She was an exceptionally sensitive and compassionate person, besides being very courageous. But from your tone, I don't expect you will grasp who she was no matter how much anyone tries to explain it to you.

To this day, it remains unknown^, and given the dwindling numbers of people still alive who could possibly remember some clue, it seems likely it will never be known for certain, barring some deathbed confession.

booklover555:The Anne Frank house in Amsterdam is seriously one of the most heart-wrenching house tours ever. Especially when I stood next to the wall where Anne and her sister measured themselves as they grew taller in hiding. Last time Anne was measured, she was about my height, 5'4"

/But she never even would have gotten that far without Miep.

Indeed, very heart wrenching - I cried when I saw the marks on the wall. The only other place on earth that moved me in that way was our family vacation to Auschwitz. No, I'm not kidding - My father took us to Auschwitz, and I'm very glad he did.

SpeelChuck:Merky: Fark this biatch. I am glad she is dead. She took someone's private diary and exposed it to the world. That is an unacceptable invasion of privacy and I hope she burns in hell for it.

Are you trolling for fun, or do you just lack reading comprehension? She didn't even read the diary and papers herself, much less expose them to anyone else. After the Franks were taken away, the Gestapo left the papers in the apartment. Mrs. Gies found them, and the diary, gathered them up and locked it all away until Mr. Frank - the only one of the family who survived - came back, and then gave the lot to him, still untouched. He was the one who decided what should be done with it.

She was an exceptionally sensitive and compassionate person, besides being very courageous. But from your tone, I don't expect you will grasp who she was no matter how much anyone tries to explain it to you.

Funny you should write this. There is some evidence that she DID want her diary to be publicly read in some form or another. According to Anne Frank: the Book the life, the Afterlife, she heard a Dutch minister in exile say (over contraband radio), that such diaries of the hardship of life during the war would be invaluable historical documents someday. She extensively edited and re-edited her diary, and wanted to be a writer someday.

LordPomposity:booklover555: The Anne Frank house in Amsterdam is seriously one of the most heart-wrenching house tours ever. Especially when I stood next to the wall where Anne and her sister measured themselves as they grew taller in hiding. Last time Anne was measured, she was about my height, 5'4"

/But she never even would have gotten that far without Miep.

Yes, it is one of the more touching pieces of fiction the Jewish media have succeeded in passing off as real.

Merky:Fark this biatch. I am glad she is dead. She took someone's private diary and exposed it to the world. That is an unacceptable invasion of privacy and I hope she burns in hell for it.

Actually she kept the diary hoping to give it back after the war. The only member of the family to survive was Anne's father and she gave the diary to him. The father was the one who had the diary published.

LordPomposity:Ah, liberals. Tolerant of all viewpoints...right up until they find one, supported by the facts, that opposes their own house-of-cards worldview. Then they brand you a troll and try to shut you up.

This post has a place in healthcare threads, Iraq war threads, abortion threads, gun control threads...really, anywhere but a farking Holocaust thread.

Read her obit in the NY Times this morning. Awesome story. Interesting to have this and the letter from Kurt Vonnegut to his folks from the repatriation camp in the waning days of WW II all on the same day on Fark.

/So it goes, Miep!//Lord Nonads-the Jewish Media, I'm certain, find you boring and idiotic///Proud to be a devout pedestrian

You trolled my comment to begin with, and I just came back to say:Nope, I'm not a Jew. I'm fact, I have a lot of German ancestry. Not sure exactly how much, but my parents both have German last names and so did my paternal grandmother.

That said, people like you make me really, really ashamed of my heritage. The German branches of my family were in America and Canada long before WWII, but they stopped speaking German at home once the atrocities of the Holocaust came to light.

If you think the Holocaust is a joke, or a conspiracy, or made-up, you need to seek professional help, because you are paranoid and/or retarded and no amount of logic or evidence can help you.

/It's not free speech if you are spreading lies and ignoring the facts and evidence.//You're just an a****** hiding behind the Constitution.